Closer

Getting There

Here is the dress so far. It's just loosely hand stitched to show me how I should sew it together on the sewing machine. It'll be shorter than that as I haven't hemmed it at the bottom.

Pictures

Attempt II

I talked to a friend of my mother's this weekend about how to make a pattern for my dress and she offered to make one for me (after attempting to teach me quickly with newspapers and rulers), along with a backup dress base in case my attempts at sewing the dress together don't pan out. I'm still feeling out of my element, but I knew I would when I started this. However, I feel the need to keep trying. I knew from the start that it wasn't going to be easy but I like the challenge and I also know when it's time to step back for a second and ask for help. I know that I am in some way getting close to what my initial goal was because I'm slowly but surely finding out more and more stuff about my mom and her family that I wouldn't have known prior to doing this project. It's nothing big... but the little things really make all the difference.